I've never straight up hated metal (although I have never at any point liked screamo stuff) but the older I get the less I resonate with the aggressive atmosphere. Not all the music I listen to these days is relaxing but I don't know that I would describe any of it as "aggressive" either. I just don't feel like I have the personality for metal anymore

>>129979698
It's just too hard and noisy, the hardest music I actually enjoy is shit like Led Zeppelin and some early Sabbath

>>129979698
because the losers that make it their personality are insufferable

Metal is deliberately confrontational in almost every aspect of its presentation, filtering outsiders is by design.
You'll be happier in general if you don't care whether people respect your music taste.

Metal has offputting aesthetic conventions and subcultural tendencies.
Even if you're able to stomach the sword&sorcery nonsense and metallerrthanthou fanbase,
you're face to face with a bunch of bands that just fucking suck.
Most metal fans often fall in the camp of flavorless pop metal like Ghost or the tryhard diehard don't you dare skirt the genre conventions true metal camp.
You actually have to look for the good stuff and most people don't reach the stage of seeing the appeal and wanting to look deeper.

>>129979896
personally, i don't even mind "hard" or "noisy," i just want it to be musical in some way. most metal is just so repetitive and boring and one dimensional, and the growling vocals are embarrassing and likewise a-musical. "oh boy, another song that's just 5 straight minutes of spamming kick drums over the guitarist spamming barely discernible chords and the vocalist growling like a cosplaying dorkwad" ad nauseum

>>129979698
I still like power and symphonic metal. And just classic (heavy) metal. Not into aggressive stuff like I was when I was younger. Maybe that's all it is. An age thing.

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>>129979698
Metal is great, I agree the primitive stuff sounds the best